A 9-year-old boy who crashed into a car while riding a bicycle with a friend Monday night has returned home from the hospital.

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"I hit the car and then I don't know," Xavier Reynolds said of what he remembers from the accident.

New Brighton police said the children drove through a four-way intersection at Fifth Street and 12th Avenue and hit the driver's-side door of the car at about 9 p.m.

"He told me that his friend, Jameson, was trying to stop with his feet and it was just too late. It was just way too late," said the boy's mother, Rhonda Kachinski.

Xavier, who was standing on the pegs of the bike as his friend pedaled, flew off the bike and landed on his head, his mother said.

Kachinski told Channel 4 Action News reporter Marcie Cipriani that she was awake all night and by the bedside of her son, who was flown to Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC.

Xavier suffered a concussion and bleeding on his brain.

His mother said he woke up Wednesday morning and had to be reminded what day it was, thinking it was already June.

"He remembers hitting the car, then after that, it's a complete blank," said Kachinski. "Then he remembers waking up a tiny bit during when he was in the helicopter. Then from there it's a complete blank after that."

Neither Xavier nor his friend was wearing a helmet, Kachinski said.

Kachinski said she has since removed the back tires from her children's bicycles and will keep them that way until they wear helmets.

"I just thank my lucky stars. I thank all the support I've gotten and I continue to get. You never really cherish how much the value of a person's life is until you go through a traumatic thing with them. It really is hard. I'm having a hard time wrapping my brain around it," said Kachinski.